PROCEDURES FOR STARTING X17B2 FACILITY FROM FULL SHUTDOWN

I. TO BE DONE BEFORE BEAM IS AVAILABLE. THESE ITEMS DO NOT REQUIRE SYNCHROTRON XRAYS, SO THEY SHOULD BE DONE EARLY.

If you are restarting after a power outage, most power switches will still be on and supplying power after the power comes back. The items in RED will have to be done anyway. The links are to photographs of the item in question, in case you don't know what or where it is.

  1. If the detector is not cold, fill it: it takes about a day to properly cool off.
  2. Turn on power to the Macintosh and the Windows 2003 server. You needn’t log on at this time. (The MAC server soon will be replaced with a Linux server, in case this page is out of date.)
  3. Turn on the power to the other computers being used (especially the SAM control computer, under the desk). Don't turn on the computers running IOCs (X17B2IMAGE, and X17B2SS1, X17B2SS2, or X17MAR345) yet (see item 12).
  4. Check all power strips in the hutch and turn them on if they are off. There are two on the back of the left-hand electronics rack (the one with the power supplies) and three in the back of the right-hand electronics rack.
  5. Turn on the CAMAC, VME, and PXI crates. The PXI crate is on the main workstation outside the hutch; the others are inside the hutch.The Mac must be on when the VME crate boots.
  6. Check the NIM bins and turn them on if they are off. Outside the hutch, one is on top of the Rockland control system and one is in the Side Station rack. Inside the hutch, One is on top of the pumping system, One is inside the right-hand rack (make sure the IP330 power supply and the Archmedes Slit control module are on), and one is in the left-hand rack.
  7. Log onto the SAM control computer (the one with 2 monitors). Select the Windows Explorer and reconnect to "P" (\\X17B2SRV\X17B2SRV_d) and "T" (\\X17B2SRV\SAMDATA2), if necessary.
  8. Start medm. If you get a message about not finding files, then you probably have not correctly connected to X17B2SRV\X17B2SRV_d described above.
  9. Check the Keithley (under "Keithley and Other Electronics" in the X17B2.ADL window. If it doesn't appear to be working right, press "Init" in its window. If this doesn't help, go to the Keithley Digital Multimeter (outside the hutch under the gray pressure controller) and turn it off, then back on and press "init" again. If this still doesn't work, reboot the VME crate (see below).
  10. If the medm windows have white where the variables should be, you may have to reboot the VME crate. Before doing so, load SSH and connect to the crate (IOCX17B2). The best way to reboot the crate is to turn its power off, then back on; watch its progress in the SSH window.
  11. If you need to squeeze a copper cube, do so now.
  12. Start the two computers which are running soft IOCs and check that all mapped drives are connected (T: and P:).
    1. The camera computer (X17B2IMAGE) runs Cygwin and a Prosilica server, necessary for the Prosilica camera. Make sure the camera is powered on. Run "Start Prosilica" on this computer.
    2. The former SideStation control computer (X17B2SS1) is currently being used for the soft IOC for the XIA modules in the PXI crate. It is also running Cygwin. Make sure the PXI crate is powered on before you turn on the computer. Run "Start IOC12" on this computer.
  13. Check the energy calibration using the 57Co lines. If you are starting from scratch, this should be done using XIA's xManager software, on the SideStation control computer. If you are restarting after a power outage, use the IDL MCA program.You should recalibrate energy using these lines before every run anyway, but it is useful to know if the calibration has changed.
  14. If there was a power outage during a run, you should be aware of several things: any heating will have ceased, but when power comes back, the heater power supply will come back on, maybe at full power! Also, some motors may have moved. The motors especially subject to this are the camera Z position, and the cam slit motors.
  15. Other things to check are the camera power supply and the LVDT power supply, both inside the hutch.
  16. Run the Startup program (IDL version). During operation of the startup program, you will determine the name and path to a new folder for your data.

II. TO BE DONE AFTER X-RAYS ARE AVAILBLE

  1. Align the press position using the X-ray beam and/or the laser.
  2. Start IDL on the main computer. The MCA program will automatically start, and you will be asked to select the directory into which to put your data (the directory you created in Startup, step 17 above).
  3. Do the energy calibration, if not already done.
  4. Put a diffraction calibration sample on the bottom anvil and do the 2q calibration.
  5. Put your sample and the side anvils in position, and close the press, without “touching”.
  6. X-ray and/or your sample to make sure everything is OK
  7. Start the epics_logger program. Select the folder you created with the Startup program for the log file. Select the proper .inp file, which has been copied to the same folder by the startup program.

updated 7/23/2009